Padding for the covering of flatwork ironers



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W. l. WEAVER PADDING FOR THE COVERING OF FLATWORK IRONERS Filed July ,211921 INVENTOR:

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PADZJING- FUR THE COVERING OF FLATWORK IRONERS.

Application filed July 21,

To all whom it ma/y concern.

Be it known that l, WILLIAM l. WEAVER,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county ofCamden, State of 5 New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Paddingfor the Covering of Flctwork Ironers, of which the following is aspecification.

In fiat work ironcrs wherein on endless apron is employed to effect thepropulsion end ironing of Hot work, it is essential and desirable toemploy .in conjunction with such endless apron, a sheet of paddingortextile fabric for the purpose intended, which should possess certaincharacteristics, since it is essential that the inner plies of thefabric be loosely bound so as to form a spongy core whilethe outsideplies must be more firmly bound and yet at the some time so woven as topermit an easy flexure of the isbric as e whole, which must havesufiicient strength to resist any tensile strains to which it may besubjected in use in passing over the rolls or colenders of the, flatwork ironer.

To the above ends my invention consists of a novel construction ofmultiply pudding or' fabric in which the layers or plies oi the fabricare so joined, that the outer plies ofthe fabric will be firml bound,while the inner plies will be less rmly bound so as to form a spongycore or interior, t geby producing o {Esbric or pudding which: is

especially adopted to the purpose named.

For the purpose illustrating my inv'cntion, I have shown in theaccompanying drawing a, form thereof which is at present preferred byme, since it will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results,although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities ofwhich my invention consists can be variously arranged and oranized andthat my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement andorganization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.I;

Figure 1 represents on unenlai ged scale, a sectional view of thepadding or cover for flat work ironers, embodying my invention.

of they weave diagram employed.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding ports;

Referrin to the drawings,

In carrying out my invention, 1 have des- Figure 2 represents adiagrammatic view I p art that in my novel fabric or padding, the

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ignated the warp threads from top to bottom of 1;; novel fabric as A, B,G, D, E, F, G and and the filling or wefts between said warps, as 1 to18 inclusive, the position of said filling'with respect to the warpsbeing readily understood fromthe drawings, the fillings 1, 5 and 18being positioned be tween the warps G and H. The filling 2 is positionedbetween the worm E and F.

The fillings 3, and ore positioned between the warps A and B. The fill v4 is positioned between the warps D and The fillings 6 and '8 arepositioned between the warps H and F. The filling 'Z is 'posi tionedbetween the warps G and F. The fillciln 9 is positioned between thewarps C an between the. warps A and C. The fillin 12 is positionedbetween the warps C on B. The filling 14 is positioned bet-ween thewarps E and F. The fillin 15 is positioned between the warps Eond- Thefillin 16 is positioned between the warps D on E. The filling 17' ispositioned between the warps D and (3. 7

It; will be apparent from the foregoing that the fillings 1 and 2, 3andl' and 5, 9 and 10-, 8 and l2, l4 and 18 and lfi and 16 arepositioned in substantially vertical align". ment. 1 t

The filling 7' is in staggered position with respect to the fillings 6and 8, and the fillings 8 end 12 are in staggered position with respectto the fillings 11 and 13.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that a four ply fabricconstructed in accordance with my invention will have the outer pliesfirmly" bound together while the inner plies will be less firmly bound,so as to form a spongy'core or interior especially adapted forthepurpose stated.

It will be understood novel fabric onpadding which I have produced, I

n will be evident to thoseskllled 1n the outside plies are firmly bound,while the in nor plies are less firmly bound, forminge; spongy corehaving the reqcomparatively uisite tensile strength, the whole padding,

by those skilled in y the art that the weaving operation to pro-- Thefillings 11 and 13 are positioned with while having a certain amount ofstretch and give, being very resilient whereby the fabric es e Wholewill possess the requisite streng ah and at the Same time being capablee of being readily bone or flexed It will he further pperent ehet in mynovel multiply fabric having ineerloclred or interwoven plies, the orfilling are fiuiify being of soft spun cotton or the like, while thewarps w are releliively smell in size whereby a novel, soft, rmiltiplypadding fabric is produced in which 0; s01 spongy core or iioner ply ispresexit.

I are aware thetchanges may he made in W preobicing this invention bythose skilled in the art, since it is evident that the plies of thefabric may be inereesed or diminished or oizherwise associated to form-afabric result ing in the principles of. invention. f l Claims: 1

Jr, As e new ereiele of manufacture, soi s rnelti-piy padding fabrichaving interwoven superposed plies comprising relatively small splicedherd ipwiseed werps endl-neletively ge epeceri soft sliveerhlgeintemvoyeh wel'jes germing e, yielding spongy mess, the warps beingarranged to firmly hind eh outer pliesend to less firmly hind the innerplies, eever elof 'ihe warps extendi from en phi afo' en edjeeenl; onethereby ring warps for seid plies, end most of e series of superposedlayers of relatively large soft sliver-like wefts interwoven withrerneee the Wefts of the upper plies being staggered relatively to the\vefts of the lower plies.

2. A soft niulti-ply padding fabric having a series of relatively smallspaced hard twisted warps, to form a yielding spong mess, the lowermostpair of the Warp series being twisted around groups of the lower 4 layerof wefts and between these groups bein; inter-twisted with certain\vefts of the lower layer and adjacent Wefts of the layer immediatelyabove the low r layer, the up per'most pair of the warp series beingtwist ed around groups of the upper layer of wefts and between theselast mentioned groups be ing intertwisted with cerlain wefis of theupper layer and edjacent-Wefts of the layer immediately below the upperlayer, the insermerliete series of warps being passed over end under theveils of the intermediate lay- 81%., end. all of ihe werpsheing arrangedto i rnly bind the upper and lower layers of waits and lroj'less firmlybind the intermediate layers of wefts.

A padding fabric as claimed in claim 2 n which most of the wefts of theupper layrs are staggered relatively to the wefts of e lower layers.

WILLIAM I. WEAVER.

